On 08/12/2010 11:52 AM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:
A traditional free software application is configurable so that it has
the union of all features anyone's ever seen in any equivalent
application on any other historical platform. Or even configurable to
be the union of all applications that anyone's ever seen on any
historical platform (Emacs *cough*).
Does this hurt anything? Yes it does. It turns out that preferences
have a cost. Of course, some preferences also have important benefits
- and can be crucial interface features. But each one has a price, and
you have to carefully consider its value. Many users and developers
don't understand this, and end up with a lot of cost and little value
for their preferences dollar.
Too many preferences means you can't find any of them. [...]
Amen.
Richard
